Stars ‘n’ Bars
July 9, 2015
Patrick Smith— What will come of the mid-June murders in Charleston is still to be determined. We have already seen an extraordinary display of solidarity and restraint as forms of… READ MORE
Category: American History
The Roots of Immigrating the Highly Skilled
June 24, 2015
Monique Laney— In recent years, high-tech industry CEOs have become increasingly vocal about their desire for immigration reform. Most of them argue that they cannot find enough native workers with the… READ MORE
Happy Father’s Day?
June 21, 2015
Lorri Glover— This Father’s Day, Vice President Joe Biden will doubtless endure the fresh pain of having so recently buried his son, Beau Biden. The nation mourned with him, all… READ MORE
America’s First Bicycle Champion
May 26, 2015
Many of us here at Yale University Press are avid cyclists. In honor of May being National Bike Month, historian and bicycle expert David V. Herlihy takes a look at America’s… READ MORE
Americanizing the Ten Commandments
April 30, 2015
Michael Coogan— In 2001, Roy Moore, the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, installed a massive monument featuring the Ten Commandments in the courthouse rotunda. When ordered by a federal… READ MORE
Lessons Not Learned: Covert Operations since the Cold War
April 15, 2015
Karen M. Paget— While writing Patriotic Betrayal, which chronicles a major Cold War covert operation with the U.S. National Student Association, I began a file in which I collected evidence… READ MORE
How Do We Fix America’s Tax System?
April 11, 2015
Michael J. Graetz— Our nation’s tax system is badly broken. Everyone knows that. The income tax law inflicts huge distortions on our economy. The only area of the economy where… READ MORE
Beginning the World Anew: An Interview with Janet Polasky
March 31, 2015
Today we’re talking revolutions. We recently spoke with historian Janet Polasky, whose latest book Revolutions without Borders: The Call to Liberty in the Atlantic World discusses the eighteenth‑century travelers who spread new notions… READ MORE
Politics and Mindsets in Poor Rural Communities
March 25, 2015
Mil Duncan— Poverty alleviation has always been politically charged in the United States. Are the poor trapped by their own bad choices—dropping out of school, having children young and out… READ MORE
The Captain and the Cannibal
March 16, 2015
On the morning of November 14, 1830, the American crew of the Antarctic had just stopped a flotilla of war canoes from a small island off the coast of New Guinea. In the… READ MORE
A Forest of Words: A Conversation with Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng